The payment is transferred to PHOTO IS:RAEL, a non-profit community which has initiated the Photography Festival and the Meitar Award. The money will be used to run the jurisdiction process and to exhibit the works at the festival. The award itself is offered by the Meitar Family Foundation.

Preferably. Judges are looking for a unique and interesting personal language expressed in a body of work. By the terms ‘body of work’ we are referring to a group of separate images united together around a particular theme, or a number of pictures that when shown together make up a cohesive whole.

The $14,000 award includes a $2,500 cash prize, with the balance of $11,500 to be used in assisting the winner in producing a solo exhibition for the International Photography Festival in 2019. A professional curator will accompany the process.